Just downloading Raspbian. It'll be interesting to see if it is fast ...

I just thought I'd share something I have been working on - it's a little gui calculator written in Python.
It seems to work, but needs tidying up. Let's say it's a "pre-Alpha".
If anyone want to give it a try and let me know if they find any bugs ...

I love the idea of RPi and happy the kids that have teachers that teach them to do programming on them.

But apart from the Classroom environ.

If one look at them from a Average Joe home computer perspective then the RPi is not ideal.

Mele1000 and MK802 and Via APC and many more are easier to get going?

Take the Via APC it cost only 49USD and have more connections then RPi has and you don't need no fancy TV with HDMI cable connection but you can connect such if you have one and you get VGA out to any old monitor you may have laying around HDMI TV is rather expensive. As an old retired Nooby I have thrown away some 4 VGA monitors due to them taking up too much space on the shelfs and now I only have 4 VGA LCD screen but only one HDMI screen and that is the TV for to look at TV and not for doing computing on.

So a Via APC costing only ten USD more has better connections I can connect USB keyboard and USB mouth without having to buy any Hub or to buy Wifi keyboard and Wifi mouse.

Via APC can also have Linux on it.

it has good RAM memory too but the GPU is only 12XX x 768 so it is not the highest resolution. But I am using 1024 x 768 now and that is okay with me.

So don't get me wrong I do love the RPi concept for Schoolroom but from a practical Linux point of view would not any of the others be even more practical?

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not an ideal solution though

Antiloquax using an emphasis on Arch code, Saluki styling and Python serpentile efforts might release an ISO over the summer?

Getting woof to work on ARM is beyond me.

Hmm, I feel that the woof business is beyond me too.
I am a little reluctant to even attempt it, as the SAP is so good!

If I did manage to do something, it probably wouldn't be very Puppy-like as my focus is all on coding, rather than the sort of complete "desktop" that Puppy offers.

Probably I am better spending my time learning programming!
Just out of interest - would PPM work with the Arch repos?
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Take the Via APC it cost only 49USD and have more connections then RPi has and you don't need no fancy TV with HDMI cable connection but you can connect such if you have one and you get VGA out to any old monitor you may have laying around HDMI TV is rather expensive. As an old retired Nooby I have thrown away some 4 VGA monitors due to them taking up too much space on the shelfs and now I only have 4 VGA LCD screen but only one HDMI screen and that is the TV for to look at TV and not for doing computing on.

Have you looked in your area for a used DVI-D monitor (can be used with HDMI to DVI-D cable or adapter)? There are a lot of these around used at pretty good prices. In my local area the online want-ads have the monitors for $20-40 USD. I got one free from a Windows 2000 system that was headed for the junk store. It works great! Amazon.com has the HDMI-DVD-D cable for $5-7 USD. So a new $150-200 USD monitor is not required.

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So don't get me wrong I do love the RPi concept for Schoolroom but from a practical Linux point of view would not any of the others be even more practical?

Sorry if this is seen as derailing this good thread. Just trying to be practical.

While the devices you mention might have some advantages, how large is their user base? There are now reportedly > 200,000 R_pi in the wild, and (I have heard) 4,000 being manufactured per day, and group sales now just being opened up. Lots of schoolchildren are coming on board, and the estimate of one million sales by the end of the year may not be grossly over optimistic.
If only 10 percent of those become Puppy users the whole enterprise would be enhanced. Good things happen when the user base becomes large. Puppy might even start appearing on arm-powered phones and tablets!

every new desktop/laptop comes with stickers on it, it will be nice if our Puppy graphicians could prepare some for Puppy and RPi, it could be something like that (i've found similar in Linux Format magazine for other distros):

Just got my Pi and great to see the work going ahead that will let me use Puppy

Unless I've been a bit blind and missed them then I'm really looking forward to seeing the first releases for me to download and boot!

Not sure I'm much cop at helping the progress but wanted to voice my avid support since Puppy is the only version Linux that's ever got me interested enough to use it let alone think about using it long term instead of MS Windows...

Cheers for the efforts!

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